Beer-registering faucet



(No Model) D. W. DAVIS & W. G. LATIMER.

. BEER REGISTERING PAUOET. No. 327,662.

Patented Oct. 6, 1885.

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UNITED STATES DAVID W. DAVIS AND \VILLIAM G.

PATENT OFFICE.

LATIMER, OF DETROIT, MICHIGAN.

BEER-REGISTERING FAUCET.

HPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 327,662,dated October 6, 1885.

Application filed July 9, 1885.

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, DAVID W. DAVIS and WILLIAM G. LATIMER, of Detroit, in the county of \Vayne and State of Michigan, have invented new and useful Improvements in Beer-Registering Faucets; and we do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and eXact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawing, which forms a part of this specification.

This invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in the construction of that class of faucets by means of which a register is obtained of the number of times the faucet is employed for withdrawing the contents of a cask.

The object of the invention is, more especially, to provide a means of checking the number of glasses of beer drawn from the cask with which the faucet is employed, and thereby reduce the peculation of the dishonest bar-tea der or beer-drawer to the minimum; hence the invention consists in so constructing a faucet and combining the same with a registering attachment that every time aglass of beer is drawn the register will disclose the fact, and in the peculiar construction, combination, and operation of the various parts, as more fully hereinafter described.

In the accompanying drawing, which forms a part of this specification, A represents a beer-faucet having a cook or valve, B, which is operated by means of an outside lever, O, in the usual manner.

At the bend or turn in the faucet leading to the outlet D there are formed above and be low the horizontal passage circular valveseats a, designed to seat the ball-valve E, which is securely attached to a rod, F, which passes through the axis of the ball E, down through the center of the pendent part of the faucet and upward through a suitable orifice in the top of the faucet.

G is a registering device secured to astandard, H, which is in turn secured to or cast in- Serial No. 17l,0-i3. (No model.)

tegral with the faucet, as may be most preferable. The standard H is hollow, and the rod F passes up through it.

In practice the ball-valve remains closed by its gravity, except when forcibly raised to the upper seats, a. N ow, to draw a glass of beer from the cask or keg to which this faucet is attached the glass is placed under the faucet below the rod and raised until the lower end of the rod, striking the bottom of the glass, will raise the ball-valve and disclose the passage from the horizontal to the vertical bore of the faucet. This movement compels the rod to act upon the register, which is of any of the known and appropriate styles of manufacture wherein the movement of the register is obtained by pushing. The faucet B being now open, the glass is filled with the beer from the keg, when the glass is lowered to release it from the rod, and the ball-valve shuts off any further flow.

It will be seen that under no circumstances can the ball-valve be raised without acting upon the register, and that no beer can be drawn without raising such ball-valve, and that this furnishes a check upon the operators against dishonesty.

That we claim as our invention is 1. A faucet provided with a registering de vice and a valve having a stem connected with said registering device, as described, whereby pressure on said stem operates said registering device, as set forth.

2. A faucet having circular valve-seats a, surrounding the vertical passage thereof at its junction with the horizontal passage, in combination with a ball-valve seated upon the seats a and secured through its axis to a rod, as a means for operating a registering device, substantially as and for the purposes specified.

DAVID \V. DAVIS. WILLIAM G. LATIMER. \Vitnesses:

H. S. SPRAGUE, E. J. SOULLY. 

